SCM Designs: Washington DC | Virginia | Graphic Design

Protected: Logo Brief

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Protected: Print Brief

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Protected: Custom Brief

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Protected: Website Brief

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Wholistic Alternative

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Wholistic Alternative came to us looking for a logo design that would help summarize her business into a translatable graphical element that could be used on her website, business cards, etc. At first the logo designs began with a heavy emphasis on the natural interplay between the letters “W” and “A.” After further proofing and input from the client, we were asked to display a more graphical element including aspects that directly translate the thought of her emphasis on “wholistic” or holistic business and lifestyles. The name ended up being a separate proof, but the client liked it so much that she asked to have it used under the graphic of two hands embracing a leafy plant. The hands represent the helping aspect of her services while the tan circle behind the hands mimics her goals of placing holistic alternatives to nutrition upon your plate. This design is the approved logo. We think it translates her business mission well to her prospective clients while translating a subtle and softer feel.

SATCOM-BMD

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:30:26 +0000

SATCOM-BMD recently contacted us to design a logo that would provide them with an identity that translated their product and services related to spectral analysis and “fly-away” dishes (stuff well beyond our full comprehension). The business owner wanted to tie in his personal passion for Bernese mountain dogs as a way to soften the imagery of all the high-tech gear that would otherwise represent his business. So, at first it seemed a bit daunting trying to figure out a way to tie together a spectrum analyzer with a “fly-away” dish, with a Bernese mountain dog, but I think the end result worked out well. The client specifically asked us not to design a contemporary logo like many of those we see every day, but rather almost mimic the look of something like a beer label – what is often referred to as a crest. The end result appealed to him right away and only simple modifications got us to the final crest.

Website & Blog Designing

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:04:23 +0000

SCM Designs is pleased to announce a new partnership with Pressbriar.com to bring you a full pallet of web services including;

• Complete website design
• Domain & hosting acquisition
• Hands-free web maintenance services
• CSS and XML/HTML services
• Blogsite construction & training
• And much more…

With this new partnership, SCM Designs can now offer valuable website services to clients such as web design, SEO and optimization, hosting, and much more. SCM Designs and Pressbriar can offer both custom WordPress remote-hosted site construction/design as well as static, HTML based web design.

Pressbriar offers unique web development and marketing strategies based on the remote-hosted WordPress content management systems/blog platform and in HTML based static web pages. We offer site building and content management of your site using hundreds of plugins and widgets, including tools for search engine optimization, account settings, site stats and analytics, forms and linked document storage, user registration, social networking, browser verification, and user comments to name a few. We are more than happy to walk you through the entire process from start to finish.

We will also offer hosting and domain registration through GoDaddy, JustHost, Fat Cow or any other hosting service upon request. This way your web design, domain acquisition and hosting service is all hands free for you and handled by us on your behalf.

This partnership is truly the right blending of web construction skills (Pressbriar) with visual graphics design (SCM Designs) to create a powerful package of combined abilities to fulfill your every web need. Let’s just say Pressbriar builds the top-quality canvases, and SCM Designs helps paint them up pretty!

Your role in building a new website with us is to provide quality copy and content that sticks to the core message without adding too much fluff. Research shows that being direct and to the point is what will ultimately keep your web visitors engaged in your site.

Jitegemee

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:28:50 +0000

Jitegemee, Inc. is an organization in Kenya whos vision is to provide street children with access to formal and vocational education, mentorship, and developmental skills for becoming a productive individual in the Kenyan society. They contacted us to design a new logo for their organization as they felt their current branding needed a slight facelift in order to reflect their forward-thinking approach to their programs. Through their committees guidance we established that they liked their current colors and branding, but wanted their logo to be brought into a more unifying design. Their name is the Swahili word for “sustain yourself” and we knew this ultimately was their adopted slogan. After a few rounds of proofs and edits, the final design maintained the look and feel of their previous one while gently updating their image. The font – although similar – now has softer edges to the letters while the new graphical element of an adult watching over a child with a book visual demonstrates the sense of oversight, mentorship and a sense of cooperation. We kept their pronunciation line below the name, but also shortened it to create better unity among the forms used. We also set up an alternative logo with their new slogan “Empowering Street Children Through Education” as seen on their website.

Check out the new logo on their website here

Below is their prior logo.

Health Diva Microsite

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:36:23 +0000

After designing the Health Diva’s new logo we quickly realized her school-provided website would not work with the new identity and logo. As the Health Diva was just getting started and her budget was tight, I proposed building her a microsite on the free WordPress blog templates available from WordPress.com. This way she has no hosting fees, no overhead for running this site other then purchasing her domain name for about $15. The benefit to her in building her a site on this platform is that she now has a full website to direct her clients to while keeping her costs down to a minimum. This platform also provides a full content management system that makes it easy for her to make changes and updates on her own (with only a few minutes to train her on the back-end). Once she has built her business, she can then invest in a full, remote hosted website.

See her microsite here (keep in mind it is still under construction)

Academic Travel Abroad

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:17:21 +0000

Here is a new website designed on the WordPress remote-hosted platform. Academic Travel Abroad is an educational travel tour operator with clients like Smithsonian Journeys, National Geographic Expeditions and many more. The previous site was in need of an update and my partner at Pressbriar developed and built this new site and I helped build many of the graphics and content to really bolster this new online presence with social networking, live slideshows, strong photos, and custom graphics. We’ve also incorporate Google analytics on the back-end of the site, banner ad capabilities, RSS and email subscription and an SEO package to drive website optimization in Google and other major web browsers search results. In fact, we built this site in such a way that actually saved the company money both this year and for ears to come. We’re thrilled with the final results.

Click here to see their website